Darren Rowse on awesomeness:

Amy Harrison on consistency:

(Superheroes) can disappear for months or years and then burst back onto the scene with a climactic display of their impressive powers. Okay for superheroes, not okay for your content. It might feel boring and constraining, but publishing consistently brings results.” [tweet this]

Chris Brogan on the protagonist:

John Chow on promotion:

Way too many bloggers think making money from blogging is like the movie Field of Dreams, where Kevin Costner’s character was told, ‘If you build it, they will come.’ You can build it, but if nobody knows about it, then they’re not coming!” [tweet this]

Penelope Trunk on finding yourself:

Yaro Starak on people:

Everything comes back to learning about people, figuring out what makes them tick and then using your understanding of their psychology to present your offer as the best tailored solution for them.” [tweet this]

Michael Dunlop on risk:

Gary Vaynerchuk on building goodwill:

Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.” [tweet this]

Jason Mathes on Google:

Steve Pavlina on monetizing:

If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent.” [tweet this]

Angi Clark on baby steps:

The thing about all successful people is, they all started somewhere. They didn’t just wake up one morning with an international clothing company, or a graphic design firm, or a famous cupcake shop, or a blog with 50,000 readers. So make a list: What’s ONE thing I can accomplish today that will take me one step closer to my goal? Then do that one thing. Then another thing. Then another. It’s all about the baby steps.” [tweet this]

Angi Clark

Jenny Weber on spelling and grammar:

How seemingly literate people still don’t know when to use YOU’RE instead of YOUR is appalling.” [tweet this]

Eli Fennell on social media:

Stephan Hovnanian on Google Plus:

Whether you are trying to get noticed by prospective employers, build ‘street cred’ around your consulting services, or simply want to network with more people, there’s no better place to build a personal brand than on Google+.” [tweet this]

Al Remetch on Google Plus:

Joan Harrington on social media:

Social media is a phenomenal tool for building your audience, connecting with new people, and growing your business but it will only work when you are consistently present, engaging with your audience, and giving them content they will love.” [tweet this]

Henneke Duistermaat on followers:

Pamela Wilson on experts:

If you have the guts to come up with an idea, and the persistence to see it through until it’s finished, you deserve to call yourself an expert on the topic. Because by researching and writing an ebook you will be.” [tweet this]

Mary Jaksch on letting worry cripple you:

Peter Anderson on illusions:

Some people have a notion in their head that running a successful blog isn’t a lot of work, that it just means writing a post here and there, publishing it and sitting back as the money flows in. It’s a lot more than that though.” [tweet this]

Harleena Singh on blogging as a business:

Alexis Grant on art and money:

It is NOT wrong to try to make a living from your art, to charge enough money that you can afford to create — so long as some people will actually pay what you’re asking. So stop feeling guilty about it!” [tweet this]

Brittany Bullen on choices:

I have learned that most things are a choice. You can choose to be happy. You can choose to be healthy. You can choose to be successful. We are not victims of our circumstances or identities. Tough things happen, but we choose what they’ll do to us.” [tweet this]

Jeni Elliott on “more”:

Carol Amato on multi-tasking:

I think we’ll all feel – and do – much better if we live ‘in the moment,’ and attempt to focus on the important thing going on or needing attention rather than trying to do it all at once.” [tweet this]

Carol Amato

Craig Emerson on quitting:

You won’t be very successful if you just pack it in the first time something doesn’t go the way you plan.” [tweet this]

Gertrude Nonterah on the little things:

Jane Sheeba on discipline:

If you lead a disciplined life you have no chances to encourage bad habits. You either won’t have time for those or you simply cannot accommodate or adopt yourself to spending time and money on bad habits.” [tweet this]

Lauren Tamm on routines:

Nathan Ambrose on fusion cuisine:

Building a successful blog is like preparing a tasty dish. There’s more to it than knowing what certain ingredients are, and how they taste on their own. Rather, it’s about having a working knowledge of how they fuse together, and why.”[tweet this]

Kevin J. Duncan on rocket science, for some reason:

Do you have a favorite quote? Be sure to share it in a comment below!

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Congratulations on making it through all the quotes! Yeah, it was a tad time consuming. 🙂

Many of the quotes I’ve gathered along the way. But putting them all together, creating a custom black-white-circular photo for everyone, finding everyone’s Twitter and G+ profiles (you would be amazed how many bloggers don’t make this info easy to find on their blogs!), error checking, error checking again…

Let’s just say it took a good while! And yes, as you pointed out, I still have more to add. Haha.

You’re very welcome. I’m glad I have the distinction of being the first person to quote you! I’m sure now that I’ve done it, everyone else will start doing it now, too. Especially since your blog is full of so much quotable text!

I’m glad you like the post enough to bookmark it and share it. It’s nice receiving positive feedback, especially considering how long it took me to put this thing together (and I’m still not done with it)!

Great list! I especially love #30 from Angi Clark. I try (and sometimes succeed) to remember this all the time. I have a never ending list of things to do, but even when I’m overwhelmed I can take ONE postitive baby step each day!

I started blogging on Blogger almost 3 years ago this month and used to write my heart out on topics that appealed to me on a weekly basis based on my Life but with a story and an educative experience – just like Kerry Russell, a favorite of mine says in the blog quote collection.

It took time to find an audience but readers came. No wonder the blog won a year after it was created and I continue to write my metaphysical stress busting posts there in addition to my official website blog which is focused more on the problems of my ideal client and based on experience.

I don’t have a quote to share, Kevin because you’ve covered all my favorites already, bloggers whom I read along the way and still follow.

The one thing I can add to the awesome compilation is to blog from the heart and write something you would want to read if you needed a solution to the problem. Be consistent but if you have nothing to say then better to keep quiet that week. 🙂

You’re absolutely correct in that (usually) it takes time to find an audience. Unless you already have a built-in audience from another popular blog, the norm is: readership takes time to build. I’m glad you stayed with, stayed consistent, and found readers. 🙂

“Write something you would want to read” is smart advice. So, too, is keeping quiet and not writing anything if you have nothing to say!

Thanks for commenting again, Vatsala! How are the color tweaks with your blog coming along?

Thanks Kevin for including my quote on your list. I am so honored to be mentioned along with these great seasoned bloggers. Very brilliant collection, I did read them all! Amazing quotes, really looking forward to updates! Keep up the great work!
Onyeka

You are welcome! Don’t tell anyone else this (I write pretending as though no one else will be able to read what I’m about to write!), but your blog was possibly the easiest for me to find a good quote! You do those daily 1-minute inspirational tips that are custom-ready for a quotes-roundup post like mine here. 🙂

I’m glad you enjoyed them! And you are very welcome regarding the inclusion of your quote. Thank you for mentioning me in your Weekly Marketing Skinny, not to mention your sharing on social media. I really appreciate it!

Also, thank you for the kind words about my blog design on G+. That was very nice of you. I really dig the look and layout of Traffic Generation Cafe, too.

HI Kevin,
I am so much inspired and excited to see all these top bloggers and their Quotes in one place.That’s definitely a great read.I am adding one from me.
“All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.Take action Now”

Hi Kevin,
Sorry for being late,i should have subscribed for following comments.Anyway
I also like the name of my blog.It reminds me of my passion which is writing.I have started blogging almost 3 months ago.

I usually forget to subscribe to comments when I leave someone a comment, too. No worries!

Congrats on reaching the 3-month mark with blogging! I’ve been at it almost ten years, but Be A Better Blogger is barely a month old. Hopefully I’ll be at a good place, too, when it reaches the 3-month mark. 🙂

Fantastic collection – lots of my favorite bloggers and some new ones for me to discover too. Thank you!

One of my mantras is – quality over quantity. I tell my audience to stop focusing on your number of email subscribers. Instead think of one place your ideal customer hangs out and one way you can help solve a burning pain. Do this and you’ll be on your way to building a list of email subscribers who love what you do.

Love these quotes! Thanks for including the “tweet this” option on each one – you made it so easy for me to share my favorite quotes – and my favorite people. (HUGE fan of Laurel Staples . . . and Delia to, of course!!) Lots of great “stuff” to ponder! I am also bookmarking!

Thanks for adding me on here. Shock of the day for me but I really appreciate it. I’ll have to start collecting quotes myself, not to put in a post but maybe incorporate in posts sometimes. Alot of great bloggers and alot of great quotes here that I’ll have to take time to read through.

Thanks so much for adding me to the list! An absolute slew of wisdom here, from THE top bloggers on earth. I love Amy Harrison’s quote. She sums up why the people on this list, are on this list.

Superheroes show up out of nowhere, with super human abilities, and save the day. Super hero bloggers show up daily, when they don’t feel like it, and create, or connect, or write, or do what needs to be done to succeed.

I spent the past 2 hours or so walking into town in Fiji, shopping, and walking back home. After some light work this morning – I woke at 5 AM – I’m at it again this afternoon. I’d probably rather be chilling on a Saturday afternoon for since we’re doing that later, I work now.

It is how it is.

Of course, later’s chilling involves drinking Kava – aka grog, here in Fiji – on our porch, wit a local….a mini ceremony. Which of course is darn cool! But still, I’m tired now, and even though I feel grateful, and high energy mind-wise, I’m human, and would rather go to sleep.

Then, I see posts like this, and the tweet you sent me, and I feel inspired. I also just scored my third interview request of the week, from Successful Blogging, one of the top”blogging” blogs on the web. I’m deeply honored, and I know that my persistence was one reason that I’m see more exposure, through your generosity, and due to the fact that I’m continuing to pop up on the radar.

Who isn’t on this list I must say, so much to learn from all of these bloggers and what each one has said. It must’ve taken lots of hard work to gather all of these, but it does make it a wonderful collection.

Thanks for adding my two cents too and I am surely going to bookmark this page as bloggers always need quotes on blogging and all of these categories you mentioned.

I long ago gave up counting how many hours I put into this list. And if you add the time my wife spent finding quotes (whenever she found a good one, she’d send it my way)… well, I bet it rivals that 8,000-word post I wrote! No wonder I’m so tired. 🙂

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it. And you are very welcome for the inclusion, my friend. Well deserved!

Ahhhh. Thanks! Haha. My wife says #102 is the best, too, so you’re in good company.

I saw you emailed me earlier today, and I promise I’ll respond to it shortly. This was one of those crazy, crazy days!

I was inspired by several quotes, from Chris Brogan about making the reader a hero, to Pat Flynn about taking action. From Angi Clark about baby steps to Jens-Petter Berget about a good definition of success.

And what an honour to be included too. I had even forgotten that I said what I did about fusion cuisine!

Well I might have gotten here sooner had I actually KNOWN about the post…
(eyes Kevin with disappointed suspicion…)

THAT, my friend is an epic list. THANK you for including me….though I’m not sure if anything I say matches the value of these bloggers…but I’m grateful to be among them.

Especially next to you, bud.

You know what I always love about lists?

It’s a connector.

Now I go through the article, find the fascinating quotes that not only grab my interest, but inspire me and say—“I’m gonna go chat with this guy/gal…cause I AGREE.”

…and off I go to make a new friend.

Hadn’t thought about this until just now…and I think that’s impressive, Kevin. Ya just slapped me with a “Howdy Neighbor Technique.”

[Note to Kevin: change the above “Howdy Neighbor Technique” into a link to your article…cause I, ya know…just made a clever plug for you to redirect attention….yup…got yer back, buddy. *wink*]

Have to say, this was a heck of a good comeback after your blogsphere coma (glad you’re okay, BTW….took a lot of pleading with Devon to keep her from pulling the plugs on the machines…..again, get yer back, buddy).

[What? ….are you serious? They weren’t life support machines? Oh. She was wanting to unplug the lamp to recharge her phone? Erk. Okay….don’t tell Kevin…still makes us look good.]

My favourite is an unknown called Darren Rowse.
“99.9% of great bloggers are not awesome on day 1. Their awesomeness is the accumulation of the value they create over time.”
Think he might do quite well… 🙂

His quote touches on a recurring theme that I’m seeing more and more. So many potentially wonderful people are put off because they think they have to hit the ground running ~ and perfect.

I think that the ubiquitous “get rich quick” brigade give out a false message about how quickly you can succeed if only you have the right niche, the right domain name, the right SEO yadda yadda.

Just like diets, there is NO quick fix *stares longingly at chocolate eclair*

Work and more work. This is where it is so important to work at something you love ~ as Neil Patel says in his quote ” Do something you are passionate about because it won’t feel like work. This way you will work harder and longer.”
And he ought to know.

Just brilliant, Kevin.

And one more thing. Not only did you garner quotes from so many great people, I love that you took the time to add their own social media to their quote box. Thoughtful touches like that make all the difference by adding so much.

Kevin, I loved this one! I’m tweeting out my favorites (unless they are too long). I really liked yours at the end, a little humorous but oh so true too. Jerod’s is in my Buffer que 🙂 So many really good quotes Kevin, thanks for putting this together (I know it’s a lot of work) and for sharing with us. Have a great rest of the week!

Thanks for the mention in this incredible list of bloggers. I especially love what Sue Anne said about successful bloggers only writing posts they know will generate traffic. Isn’t that the truth? Because at the end of the day, it’s about what the reader wants to see, learn and read about. Not me sharing about the 87 sprinkles I ate off a donut today.

This was a great list of quotes and the bloggers that go with each quote. I only know a few of them out of the list, but the one’s I do know I can remember reading their quotes on their posts. I was surprise that I was included and I really appreciate this Kevin. This let’s me know that I’m doing something right 😉

Congrats on finishing the post at last — it was worth the wait for me! You introduced me to a load of bloggers I don’t know, and the quotes cut across a wide swathe of the blogosphere. The Pinterest quote by Beth Haydn :”If you only pin your own stuff on Pinterest, you will fail as a pinner. You’ll never see that consistent flow of targeted traffic that you’re longing for.” — that was a good reminder.

What a great list. I can appreciate the time and effort it took to create it. My favorite quote is # 72 by Catherine Holt on confidence. People tend to naturally gravitate to those who exude confidence in all that they do. Also, they stand out from the crowd and are memorable. When was the last time you remembered someone who blended in with everyone else?

I will share and definitely bookmark as every blogger no matter their experience level needs to read this.

What an amazing post Kevin. I found your blog through BoostBlogTraffic and so glad to be here. This is a very unique ideas and you did a great job. Thank you so much for sharing. I just tweeted this post.